Friday, April 8, 2016

Forge World has released a Contemptor for the Thousand Sons and new armor upgrades.From Forge World:

No longer able to fight unaided, the still-living mortal remains of a
Legions greatest warriors may be interred within a Contemptor
Dreadnought to continue their service. A large number of these advanced
Dreadnoughts were destroyed during the dark days of The Horus Heresy,
but some survived and are still in service in the Space Marine Chapters
and Chaos Space Marine warbands of the 41st Millennium.

This Contemptor Dreadnought has been marked with the icons and
insignia of the Thousand Sons Legion. It may be taken in Legiones
Astartes armies in Horus Heresy games using the rules presented in The
Horus Heresy Legiones Astartes: Crusade Army List.

Contemptor Dreadnoughts can also be taken as part of a Space Marines
army in standard games of Warhammer 40,000, for which the rules can be
found in Imperial Armour Volume Two – War Machines of the Adeptus
Astartes, Second Edition or in a Chaos Space Marines army, for which
rules can be found in Imperial Armour Volume Thirteen – War Machines of
the Lost and the Damned.

The Thousand Sons Legion Contemptor Dreadnought is a complete
multi-part resin kit – weapon arms shown are not included and are
available to purchase separately.

Whilst standard patterns of armour were shared across the Legiones
Astartes, variations on these templates surfaced in most Legions. Achean
pattern armour arose as a local variation of Mk IV ‘Maximus’ battle
plate, produced for the Thousand Sons Legion by the forges local to
Prospero.

More stylised than their standard armour, Achean pattern battle plate was most often worn by Legion veterans.